[Illustration courtesy of the Hon. Internet Septic Tank Engineer who, in quick response to recent requests for an image of Charles Johnson’s head on a pike, provided that graphic for all the honest and truthful bloggers of the world to enjoy, on his own dime and without request for recompensation.]

Anyone who’s been following The Diary of Daedelus knows that The Boiler Room Crew has been very busy these past few months, and now it’s time to give them a reprieve. To be sure, they’ve passed a few messages up the seekrit shaft, yet they’ve never requested a break. They’re long overdue for shore leave.

Two home runs in the span of a pancake is above and beyond the call of duty in this reporter’s opinion. They’ve secured, hidden and camouflaged The World’s Greatest Blog Search Engine™, opened the blacked out windows and are airing the place out so it’ll be nice and fresh when they come back to tackle the next assignment in the hopper.

Congrats and Kudos, Dudos. You’ve caused jaws to drop in stunned amazement all over the internest.

465 Charles
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By the way, I checked out Patterico’s post about me “faking” my statistics, which includes a video from the stalker site.

The video is faked. It’s quite easy to see how he did it — he used another browser to reload the page at the same time, thus making it appear as if the ‘views’ counter jumped by several numbers.

Anyone who doesn’t believe this — go ahead and try to duplicate the stalker’s video yourself. Pick an old post from several years ago, reload the page, and watch the views counter — it will increment by one.

They’re reduced to actually faking things now. There’s nothing faked about LGF’s statistics — the views counters show how many times a page was loaded, period.

I know no one will ever believe us but there is one thing all of us down here in the Boiler Room agree on. We will never fake anything, of course we can, but what is the point.

In fact there are some things that we discovered while digging through the shit down here that we never did go with as articles. The reason? We could not prove 100% that what we thought was true was, or we contacted a third party who put a different slant on what we thought was a good story.

Anything we do “fake” or “spoof” we do in such an obviously fake way that everyone can see we are doing satire and The Onion type of things.

A good example is the image at the top of this thread. I can say with my hand on my heart that this image is not, and I repeat it is NOT a Photoshopped image!

Well, I know I didn’t “fake” the video; everything was as I said. I’m assuming he’s not accusing me of editing the video, rather, that I had another window open and was refreshing the page?

Even if I had another browser/window working, I don’t think I’d be able to refresh the page 13 times in that period. 40 -> 53 my first click to get it to 41 was at 0:36 of the video, and the last click to get it to jump to 53 was at about 1:14 ish. That’s like 38 seconds. You can clearly see my loading bar, and that clicking sound you hear is the wheel on my mouse trying to scroll up.

But, others have said that they couldn’t do it either, so I wonder if it is browser specific? I’m using IE.

Correct. It shouldn’t matter, even if you did have another window open. The only way to fake that (and he should know this good and well) is to set up a very elaborate hoax with an internal server on your computer.

There was no video fakery. Chen did the vid last night on a dare. It had already been confirmed by several contributors independently and cross checked over the past week before The Boiler Room Crew decided to post it.

There’s another video done independently from Chen’s. The quality wasn’t quite as good and there’s no verbal narrative, but it shows the same results.

Chen’s video is authentic, unless he’s capable of finding an LGF thread from 2003, copying and manipulating it, creating a video, editing it, overlaying a loading bar, and providing a syncronized voiceover, posting it to YouTube, writing up a post and creating statistics to back it up in less than a couple of hours.

I just checked- That’s from the secret thread, innit? LOL I wonder why they suddenly had an unannounced seekrit thread? hhmmm…were the lizards discovering funny stuff themselves? You’d think if he was going to accuse me of faking the video, he’d put it right out there and rub it in my face.

I was checking alexa for rankings and noticed that LGF has tanked and pam is pretty much up with it. Funny. Then while checking patterico’s stats I noticed a feature at the bottom called the wayback machine. I checked out how patterico looked back in 04 and 05, and then went over to check LGF stats. Oops. Blocked by the owner. Go figure that.

This proves that Fatass was perpetrating intentional fraud, as he knew exactly how to stop the geometric-counting to stop on a dime. Now, let’s keep track of his page-views while monitoring the counter. MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!

My only prob with the pike, is that pike are long, skinny fish. Chunky’s head would look more natural, a product of evolution if you will, mounted on a small whale or a manatee. Small quibble, pay me no mind.

* expressway: a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
* highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh
* a sharp point (as on the end of a spear)
* medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff
* Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs after his pageview fraud was exposed.

Beeduwine :
465Charles
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By the way, I checked out Patterico’s post about me “faking” my statistics, which includes a video from the stalker site.
The video is faked. It’s quite easy to see how he did it — he used another browser to reload the page at the same time, thus making it appear as if the ‘views’ counter jumped by several numbers.
Anyone who doesn’t believe this — go ahead and try to duplicate the stalker’s video yourself. Pick an old post from several years ago, reload the page, and watch the views counter — it will increment by one.
They’re reduced to actually faking things now. There’s nothing faked about LGF’s statistics — the views counters show how many times a page was loaded, period.

Johnson’s lying – nobody here faked anything, and he knows it, and his few remaining loyal loozards also know it (and just like the St. Pancake flap they just don’t care).

Note what he says – “reload the page”. Accessing an old LGF thread and then reloading the page has always been the least reliable way to see the Views count padding happening.

Try accessing an old thread, scrolling down and right-clicking the “comments” link, then pasting that link into a new tab on your browser and hitting go and noting the new Views count. This has been a much more reliable way of seeing Views counts jump by 2, 3, or 4 rather than the correct increment of 1.

ChenZhen, as The Minotaur :
I just checked- That’s from the secret thread, innit? LOL I wonder why they suddenly had an unannounced seekrit thread? hhmmm…were the lizards discovering funny stuff themselves? You’d think if he was going to accuse me of faking the video, he’d put it right out there and rub it in my face.
Anyway, I made another video where I can consistently make it jump by 9 with every refresh of http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/17913_PJ_Editorial_Board_Profile-_Tim_Blair/comments/. The counter went from 50 to 104 in less than a minute. 6 clicks. No way I could do that even with another browser or window, given the loading times.
Might be browser-specific. Not sure.

May be browser specific: only increases by 1 with each refesh on Chrome.

Next feature on Green Lies might be the Obama didn’t really bow to the Saudi King thread. That was one of my first WTF moments over there. I was able to completely ignore the Vlaams Belang Do Wah Diddy Diddy issue. Oh, question. How long does it take for a pike to stink?

Even when I was still posting at LGF if he started complaining about “stalkers” I would glaze over and skip to the next discussion. Hint for Charles: endlessly whining about yourself doesn’t even thrill the captives.

beeduwine :
That article is partly true, but group dynamics is tricky business. The shadow-leaders are the most important ones, I think, and can bring forth success even while working under a weak leader.

Excellent observation. I never saw the website before googling the fish proverb, so no vested interest in defending it…

beeduwine :That article is partly true, but group dynamics is tricky business. The shadow-leaders are the most important ones, I think, and can bring forth success even while working under a weak leader.

Well, they have an unfair-advantage, being that they are the only ones who know what evil lurks in the heart of men. The shadow-leaders just know.

beeduwine :
That article is partly true, but group dynamics is tricky business. The shadow-leaders are the most important ones, I think, and can bring forth success even while working under a weak leader.

As applied to LGF, it certainly had a perverse effect: the shadow-leaders that have emerged (Killgore, Perrin, Ice & Jimmah) have only succeeded in wrecking the blog under the CJ’s (strong/weak?) dysfunctional leadership. Interesting reversal, that.

Yeah, but KT, RP, Ice, Jimmah, LVQ, etc. didn’t assume their position through an organic process the way “shadow-leaders” do. They were deliberately appointed by the Blogmeister and thus would be more accurately described as lieutenants.

Which brings to mind the old adage about 1st-class leaders appointing 1st-class lieutenants while 2nd-class leaders appoint 3rd-class ones. To be sure, the adage doesn’t tell us exactly what sort of goons a 5th-class leader like Charles would appoint, but ….

She will need major de programming when the cult collapses. Hey Marjorie, What is so diverse about
a) Post random smear of (female) conservative
b) Rant about how awful said conservative is
c) swoon over the obamamessiah and Charles
d) Rinse repeat.
Get a clue Marj and get out from behind the keyboard once in a while.

Of course you wouldn’t post anywhere else, Marjorie darling. At any other blog, left or right, your lack of reasoning and ignorance would be exposed to its full extent and you’d either be ridiculed or completely ignored.

Enjoying your cult, m’dear? If you really believe your blog is the pinacle of political discourse, you suffer from greater delusion than a certain recently departed “friend” (that you all have kicked to the curb like a dog and then have the temerity to bitch about how others are supposedly treating him).

BTW Chen great job lately. Any time off for the BRC is well deserved. You have to pace yourself for these long wars.

Hear, hear! 🙂

DoD was funny as hell when all we were doing was laughing at his stupid 180 on every issue, and psychic-meltdown over his rejection by Pam, followed by the banning of every decent poster.

This boiler room stuff is too precious for words, though. The level of technical expertise is beyond me, but the discovery of his deceitful ways in regards to lying about his history, site-traffic, and anything else having to do with his blog, is reminiscent of the way Nixon’s presidency melted down under the relentless pressure of the Watergate investigation, which also included an insider ratting Tricky Dick out. There are lots of “Deep Throats” in this story, former lizards who have tons of memories of the true history.

It’s the cover-up that kills the perp, in these things. Chunky’s feeble attempts to cover up his lurid, Islamophobic (NTTAWWT) years, and now his jiggering of the page-views, are all being tweeted across the blogosphere and chortled over by the dwindling number of pundits and practitioners who still pay any attention to LFG.

yep, it jumps by 9 if you wait for the page to finish loading. if you don’t wait for the page to finish loading, then it jumps by only 1. very interesting. i think that would mean that he’s counting 8 other things loading on each post as page views – not waiting for the page to completely display means those 8 other mysterious things aren’t getting loaded, of course. damn, what a pathetic blog whore CFnJ is.

I can confirm comments are private for that thread. I think it started as a private thread but I am not 100% certain. I spotted it when it had under 100 comments last night and it was private then.
Two netizens had sockpuppets in there last night monitoring the thread in real time. A few comments were posted at Blogmocracy. Those folks may be able to tell you more.

I see where the Hart of Gold landed again. I can’t find the roster where we can sign up to sit it the room with the one who claims to be RP. As much as I hate to do it…I just think that you should know that I have been kicked out of Biker Bars for being too rowdy and recently was tarred and fathered by the good folks of a local Amish community (I guess I just get on some folks nerves). Just let me know when it’s my turn, I’ll be nice as I can. Just say’n.

So, to sum up, everyone who’s looking is seeing “LGF Views” increment anywhere from 2x to 9x the correct value.
Splitting the difference, calling it 5x, the quick and dirty way to get actual views from “LGF Views” is to drop the last digit and double.
E.g. 21,046 “LGF Views” would be roughly 2104×2 = ~4200 actual views. That reality factor adjustment is ballpark what Zip yesterday reported his sources showed, IIRC.
Remember that loozards – “drop the last digit and double”.

Also, in the day since we’ve posted this, we’ve naturally had a lot of folks try to duplicate what happened there in the video (Patterico said he couldn’t). With the other feedback that we’re getting, it appears that the refresh issue I’m demonstrating is specific to IE users, and that you must allow the page to load completely for it to jump by 9 like that.

So, I whipped up another quick video, this time just refreshing the page with comments, and making sure to wait for the page to load completely. I’m using IE8 on my VAIO, and was able to get it to jump by 9 with each refresh:

1) Pick a thread at random from list of threads above.
2) Right click on it and select copy link address.
3) Paste that link into your browser’s address bar and click go.
4) Note the Views count once the page loads.
5) Open a second tab in your browser, paste in same link address, click go.
6) Note the new Views count.

Whether it’s intentional or not, it’s been pointed out to him, and he’s denying that it exists. Furthermore, he’s crowing about his bogus numbers. There is some responsibility, whether this is intentional or not, to address this once it’s been pointed to him. And he certainly can’t deny that it’s been pointed out.

1) Pick a thread at random from list of threads above.
2) Right click on it and select copy link address.
3) Paste that link into your browser’s address bar and click go.
4) Note the Views count once the page loads.
5) Open a second tab in your browser, paste in same link address, click go.
6) Note the new Views count.

ChenZhen, as The Minotaur :hey, well, ya know. If CJ’s reading this thread, we’re giving him hints on how to fix it.
So instead of making accusations that a “faked” a video, maybe he should just own up and thank us.

That thought did cross my mind. Odd how it went from adding 9 views to adding 1 view in less than an hour.

ChenZhen, as The Minotaur :
hey, well, ya know. If CJ’s reading this thread, we’re giving him hints on how to fix it.
So instead of making accusations that a “faked” a video, maybe he should just own up and thank us.

My guess is he never publicly owns up to it, privately blames it on jQuery, quietly fixes it, and finds some other, less-obvious way to inflate his Views counts.

So as a further experiment I went to the current front page at the swamp. There are 12 threads posted on the front page. I went to the 12th thread (37969)opened the comments and refreshed. Blammo, 8 new page views on that thread but no new comments. I clicked the “new comments” button. Blammo, 8 new page views on that thread.

So it’s still jumping multiple views on current dead threads on the front page.

Well, like Zip posted yesterday, BlogAds has LGF at around 120,000 ad impressions per week. To see this note what’s checked in the DURATION box (‘one week’) and note the “Est. Impressions” (currently ‘119,788’) in the TOTALS box. (An ‘ad impression’ is the same as a page view.)

Now, for yesterday Johnson shows 124,492 ‘page views’. That’s more than Blog Ads predicts for an entire week at LGF. Whom do you believe?

You know, if Johnson does something as simplistic and duplicitous as bumping the ‘Views’ count for every article on the front page of LGF, and then at the end of the day totaling the ‘Views’ counts for all the articles posted that day at LGF, and then calling that number the ‘page views’ for LGF for that day, he’d get close to the requisite 8x amplification of his ‘page views’ to explain the approximate 8x difference between his stat’s and Blog Ads for LGF.

So all this other, browser-based, ineptly-coded ‘Views’ enhancement is just so much gravy on top of that big cheat. I.e. every time anyone hits the LGF front page his ‘page view’ count gets bumped by one times the number of articles on the front page!?! Funny if true.

Well it could work as a bit of a bait and switch – Johnson’s hugely larger (~8x) ‘page views’ stat’s get buyers into the tent, and then if they don’t notice or don’t care that Blog Ads’ stat’s are significantly different … ka-ching!

garycooper The level of technical expertise is beyond me, but the discovery of his deceitful ways in regards to lying about his history, site-traffic, and anything else having to do with his blog, is reminiscent of the way Nixon’s presidency melted down under the relentless pressure of the Watergate investigation, which also included an insider ratting Tricky Dick out. There are lots of “Deep Throats” in this story, former lizards who have tons of memories of the true history.

109 Charles
Thu, Jan 27, 2011 1:54:27pm
I swear – I don’t know how people stand working on a Windows PC. Every time I start up Win 7 there are more updates to install, and most of the time they require a restart, sometimes more than one restart. It’s annoying as all heck.

Yeah, starting up a new PC is a nightmare compared to a Mac, which I only know because my college-kid daughter bought herself a Macbook with her graduation money, against my advice. I remember taking it out of the box last year, and turning it on…there was no software to load, it connected with the wireless network in about a minute with maybe one prompt, and that was it. Done. LOL!

I’m still a PC-guy, though. There’s something elitist and super-annoying about Apple-freaks, I can’t get past. Except my daughter, she’s cool. Chunky, on the other hand…EWWWWWWW!!

a-naughty-mouse :Guess who is working on the page views problem:
109 CharlesThu, Jan 27, 2011 1:54:27pmI swear – I don’t know how people stand working on a Windows PC. Every time I start up Win 7 there are more updates to install, and most of the time they require a restart, sometimes more than one restart. It’s annoying as all heck.